short, a. [brief], contracted, terse, [concise], condensed, [sententious], laconic, succinct, [summary], epigrammatic, [pithy]; [limited], [inadequate], [insufficient], [deficient], [scanty]; [abrupt], curt, [uncivil]; [lacking], [shy], [unsupplied]; [crisp], friable, [brittle]. Antonyms: [diffuse], prolix, [long].

shortage, n. [deficiency], [insufficiency], inadequacy, deficit, ullage. Antonyms: See surplus.

short-billed, a. brevirostral, brevirostrate.

shortcoming, n. [defect], [imperfection], [fault], foible, [failure].

shorten, v. [abridge], abbreviate, [curtail], [reduce], epitomize, [contract], [retrench], [condense], [diminish]; [limit], [restrict], [restrain], [confine], circumscribe; [dock], [lop].

shortening, n. abbreviation, [abridgment], [contraction], curtailment, [reduction], [retrenchment].

shorthand, n. phonography, [stenography].

short-headed, a. brachycephalous.

short-legged, a. breviped.

short-lived, a. ephemeral, [mushroom], transitory.